Website Evaluation

Students will become familiar with a website, learn how to navigate the site, evaluate the site, and make a presentation. The presentation will show how to use the site, the features of the site, and the strengths and weaknesses of the site (and some neat mathematics!).

Student may evaluate websites not on this list.

Websites to Evaluate

  1. Probability by Surprise - http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~susan/surprise/
  2. Apex Learning - http://www.apexlearning.com/
  3. Geometry Center at Science U - http://www.scienceu.com/geometry/
  4. Institute for Advanced Study / Park City Mathematics Institute http://www.admin.ias.edu/ma/
  5. Regents Exam (exam in N.Y.) Prep Center - http://regentsprep.org/
  6. Spark Notes - Test Prep site (there are Spark Notes books) http://www.sparknotes.com/
  7. What Works (gov't) Clearinghouse - http://whatworks.ed.gov/
  8. National Numeracy Strategy (from gov't of UK) http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/numeracy/
  9. Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE) at Univ. of Illinois - http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/
  10. The Webquest Page - http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
  11. High School Operations Research - http://www.hsor.org/index.cfm
  12. Test Prep Review - http://www.testprepreview.com/
  13. PUMAS (poo' · mas) - Practical Uses of Math and Science - http://pumas.jpl.nasa.gov/
  14. PBS Teacher Source - http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm
  15. Balanced Assessment in Mathematics - http://balancedassessment.concord.org/
  16. AIMS Education Foundation - http://www.aimsedu.org/index.html
  17. The Futures Channel - http://www.thefutureschannel.com/
  18. education.ti.com (Texas Instruments) - http://education.ti.com/educationportal/index.jsp
  19. Mathematics Tutorials and Problems (with applets) - http://www.analyzemath.com/
  20. RubiStar - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
  21. Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/front.shtml
  22. Intel Innovation in Education - (They make the pentium processor) http://www97.intel.com/education/index.asp
  23. Illuminations (http://illuminations.nctm.org/index.html) and Electronic Examples (http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/index.htm) compare/contrast/why two?
  24. Purplemath – Your Algebra Resource - http://www.purplemath.com/index.htm
  25. GuideMeNACME - From the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering - http://www.nacme.org/
  26. History of Mathematics archive - http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/index.html

Some Sites that have some good points, but some Major Drawbacks

  1. Cumbersome~ Mathsnet - http://www.mathsnet.net/
  2. Not by an authority (and wrong purpose)~ Webmath - http://www.webmath.com/
  3. Not current~ Visual Calculus - http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/
  4. Too costly~ ExploreLearning.com - http://www.explorelearning.com/

Good, Proven Sites

  1. Good/well organized~ National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
  2. New support~ Math Forum - http://mathforum.org/
  3. Well-supported~ Mathcounts - This is a coaching a competition program for grades 5-8 - http://mathcounts.org/
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By Jim Olsen
Western Illinois University
Last updated: July 5, 2006